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RAG to Riches
Today I will be regaling you with tales of marvelous cherry-picked new developments in AI, from Sam Altman's recent Uno Reverse incident to bear spraying job-hungry engineers.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Advancements in machine learning for machine learning
Posted by Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Bryan Perozzi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Re...
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New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
Update: We have published a new blog post describing an additional Zulip plan for self-hosting without commercial support. Zulip is a 100% open-source team chat application designed for efficient communication. Zulip is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution. Organizations that self-host …
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Prompt – A terminal for a container-oriented desktop
Prompt is a terminal that marries the best of GNOME Builder’s seamless container support, the beauty of GNOME Text Editor, and the robustness of VTE. I like to think of it as a companion terminal to Builder. Though it's also useful for immutable/container-oriented desktops like Fedora Silverblue or Project Bluefin…
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Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.
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I bricked my Christmas lights
Reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers, or How I Bricked My Christmas Lights If a device communicates via Bluetooth LE and has an app, it deserves to be integrated into my home automation system. I’ve spent a significant amount of time reverse engineering various budget-friendly LED light strips to...
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Do large language models need all those layers?
Finding that 70% of attention heads and 20% of feed-forward networks can be excised with minimal effect on in-context learning suggests that large language models are undertrained.
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Risk management is not project management
Why shifting full accountability for high-risk tasks to third parties increases rather than decreases project risk.
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Database Fundamentals
The fundamental problems a database engineer thinks about in the shower
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Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser
Hey, folks! Today we want to talk about the wonderful read-eval-print-loop (REPL) . Thanks to WebAssembly (Wasm), it's becoming increasingly common for programming language websites to embed a REPL in which passersby can easily evaluate code and get a feel for the language without having to install anything on their…
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Cognitive distortions that undermine clear thinking
Leaders are paid to think clearly. And a big impediment to clear thinking is what CBT/REBT calls Cognitive Distortions: errors in thinking or thinking traps we commonly fall for. Most high-performers are not pathological, but instead fall for them when upset or in high-stress situations. In this
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September 11th That You Have Never Seen
In 2001, digital cameras were a rare commodity. They were expensive, bulky and captured images that were inferior to the organic look of…
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Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection
Authors: PromptArmor and Kai Greshake
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What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
Observations in mice hint at role of daydreams in remodeling the brain
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Chesterton's Fence: A lesson in second order thinking (2021)
A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.
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Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io
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WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
I’m a responsible web designer, and as such, since WordPress (finally) accepts media uploads of image/webp MIME type and since all web browsers newer than …
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More product, fewer product managers
There has been a lot of discussion about how many Product Managers (PMs) are required in a product team. This conversation gained momentum after Airbnb restructured their product management organization, followed by articles about how startups are thriving without any PMs.
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Windows Protected Print Mode
Over the past year, the MORSE team has been working in collaboration with the Windows Print team to modernize the Windows Print System. This new design,...
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Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge
We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google and The Forge to bring some helpful performance optimizations to our Vulkan mobile backend.
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.
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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
After more than 11 years, HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto pens a heartfelt goodbye letter to the company he helped create.
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Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner
With Ubicloud PostgreSQL, we are releasing an open and managed PostgreSQL, and cutting your cloud database spend by 3x.
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Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad
If you have a QA team, please read this and give them a large raise.
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I Can't Sleep
I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [1], on hospitals [2], on schools [3]. Tens of thousands of dead [4] in indiscriminate bombings [5]. Children
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Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic
An embedding is the representation of a piece of text like a word, sentence, or paragraph. Traditionally this value is in the form of a mathematical vector - a point in space. You can think of it as analogous to coordinates on a map that just happens to have many, many dimensions.